Dry Curing Meats

Learn how to dry cure meats with author and butcher Meredith Leigh.

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What is Curing Meats?

Dry curing or curing meats is a step in the journey toward fuller flavor and/or preservation. This course will teach you the simple process of dry curing meats, using several hands-on examples and offering a few options for how to put your skills into action to produce delicious results.

You Will Learn

What is Curing of Meats? Learn the science and purpose of curing meats with salt
How to develop your own cure recipes
Recipes for curing bacon, pancetta, coppa, and lonza
What to do with cured meats from cooking to fermenting and drying to shelf stability

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“Meredith expertly shares her charcuterie practice demonstrating safe and effective techniques to dry cure meats. The use of curing salts can be a sticky subject and Meredith handles it deftly! She clearly explains the use of both pure salts and curing salts so you understand how the salts work in the curing process, why they are used, and how to produce safe and delicious dry cured meats. ”

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“Thank you for your clear and focused offerings. The short course was amazing. ”

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Course curriculum

1. Food Safety First
2. What is Curing Meat? : The Role of Salt & Equilibrium
3. How to Use Curing Salts
4. How to Make Bacon
5. How to Make Pancetta
6. How to Make Lonza
7. How to Trim a Coppa for Curing
8. How to Make Coppa or Capicola
9. Hanging Cured Meats for Aging
1. More Resources for You!

About this course

$75.00
13 lessons
1 hour of video content

Instructor(s)

Instructor Bio:

Hi! I'm Meredith. I've been working in food and farming for over 20 years, working to de-fragment and co-recreate the food system. When I started fermenting, it brought everything that I love and believe about working with plants, animals and the soil full circle to working with food in the kitchen. My favorite thing about fermentation is that it allows anyone anywhere in the world to harness the patterns of nature that drive life, giving people a super accessible window into the elemental vitality of the earth that both inspires us to live consciously and to hope for the future. I love teaching about fermentation because I get to carry that message, and empower people to take back their food and their health. My specialty is fermented meat products, but I also enjoy making veggie ferments, miso, and non-alcoholic fermented beverages. I'd say my biggest fermentation fail was the time I tried to ferment an entire sheep's stomach. Actually, the jury is still out on that one. I think it is still in my cellar somewhere... Anyway, I can't wait to share fermentation projects with you, and learn from you in turn! You can reach me at [email protected]